This past week was a great week, but full of many struggles and pain. The first day started out great and the kids were super excited to be at camp and were ready to start playing soccer. The coach, Tom, was an amazing guy who had a heart full of love from God for each of the kids. Then during the night I got sick and spent the night in the nurse’s station. Upon waking up I felt a little better, but after checking my temperature, I realized I had a low grade fever and stayed in bed till after lunch. Then my temperature increased a little and even after supper increased a little more. I slept almost the entire day and felt like I didn’t want to eat much. I kept asking God why He was taking me out of the day and what it was that He wanted to do in the kids’ lives without me, but then I began to realize that maybe it wasn’t the kids’ lives that He wanted to impact but my own. While I was in the nurse’s station one of the staff members came in to see how I was and asked if I wanted to read a book. She came back with the book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I had heard many great things about the book but never read it for myself so I figured I would give it a shot. I love it!! I’m not that far into it yet, but it’s giving me a new look on love and the significance of how much God loves me and desires me to love Him and others. Once back with my cabin for the rest of the week I tried to stay focused on God and remind myself each day of His presence and how much He loves me and the kids.
Our week ended out really well and many of the staff and counselors were able to go into town to watch a “magic show” with a Christian guy. He did illusions and different tricks for the first half of the show and then stopped to tell people that they could leave if they wanted to, but he was going to tell them his testimony if they wanted to stay and listen to what he had to say. It was really great to be there and hear his story. The show is called MAZE.
Saturday was a very laid back day and the girl counselors had a hair cutting party at one of the staff’s house and we watched Mulan. It was great just being able to hand out with all the girls and talk with each other and grow closer. Then later in the day a group of us went out to the wilderness camp and went fishing for salmon and had a camp fire. I learned how to fly fish and how to fillet a fish. It was a lot of fun and very tasty. Sunday was such a beautiful day and we spent most of the afternoon outside just talking and enjoying the wonderful weather. Then in the evening we had praise and prayer with everyone. During the prayer part we had a lot of people share things that were going on at home and the pain they were feeling as they were not at home to be with loved ones. We also have a few people here at camp dealing with different things that greatly need prayer. Satan knows God’s moving in the lives of these Alaskan kids and he doesn’t like it. Please pray for strength and focus as we start the next half of our summer. Pray for God’s mighty hand to intervene where He sees fit. I myself have been feeling a little empty and far from God. I just have this empty feeling in my heart and I don’t know what it is. My time alone with God has not been as meaningful as it has been or as I would like it to be. Pray for God to fill me with His spirit and desire to continue to grow in Him. We start a new week of camp with Bronco kids. I’m looking forward to what God has in store for us and the kids. Thanks for your continued prayers!!!
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